Are you curious about what students have been reading? Need a tried and trusted recommendation? Want to know what the current trends are?

Below are the 30 books that have been issued most frequently this year at the Library of St Bede. There is a definite trend here, with basketball, sporting biographies, Guinness Book of Records, adventure novels and dystopian novels coming up top of the list again – no surprises there!

• Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 20 issues (sports biography)
• Kobe Bryant – Matt Christopher - 19 issues (sports biography)
• My story – Dan Carter - 18 issues (sports biography)
• Scythe - Neal Shusterman - 18 issues (dystopian novel)
• Guinness world records 2021 - 13 issues
• Rising above: how 11 athletes overcame challenges – Gregory Zuckerman -13 issues (sports)
• Hell island – Matthew Reilly - 12 issues (adventure novel)
• Gym candy – Carl Deuker - 12 issues (sports novel)
• Diper overlode - Jeff Kinney - 12 issues (humorous novel)
• Salah - Luca Caioli - 11 issues (sports biography)
• Hacking, heists & flaming arrows – Robert Muchamore - 10 issues (adventure novel)
• Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days - Jeff Kinney – 9 issues (humorous novel)
• The hunger games - Suzanne Collins – 9 issues (dystopian novel)
• Brothers in black : the long history of brotherhood in New Zealand – Jamie Wall - 9 issues (sports)
• 1918: Broken poppies - Des Hunt – 9 issues (war novel)
• The new patrol – Andy McNab - 9 issues (adventure novel)
• Guinness world records 2020 - 9 issues
• Messi - Luca Caioli - 9 issues (sports biography)
• Big game – Dan Smith - 9 issues (adventure novel)
• On the court with Stephen Curry – Matt Christopher - 9 issues (sports biography)
• Guinness world records 2023 – 9 issues
• Boys among men – Jonathan Abrams - 9 issues (sports)
• The escape - Robert Muchamore – 8 issues (adventure novel)
• Michael Jordan: the life – Roland Lazenby - 8 issues (basketball biography)
• Dry – Neal Shusterman – 8 issues (dystopian novel)
• Apocalypse kings – Derek Landy – 8 issues (dystopian novel)
• The hunt – Andrew Fukada - 8 issues (dystopian novel)
• Red Rising - Pierce Brown - 8 issues (dystopian novel)
• Bro – Helen Chebatte - 8 issues (contemporary novel)
• Ground zero – Alan Gratz - 8 issues (contemporary novel)